Robert Caro
Robert Caro (born October 30, 1935, New York City, United States), aged 90, is an American journalist and author. Caro is best known for The Years of Lyndon Johnson and The Power Broker. Caro's honours include Pulitzer Prize for Biography, National Book Award and National Humanities Medal.
Robert Caro’s zodiac sign is Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Pig, with Life Path 4 in numerology.
Scorpio, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a 
Wood Pig, with 
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Robert Caro’s AsterNym identity
The Steadfast Architect
Earth represents stability. Earth-led charts are associated with patience, responsibility and the ability to make people or projects feel supported. Life Path 4 represents structure: foundations, systems and the patience to continue after the first enthusiasm fades.
Earth Day Master (BaZi) × fixed Sun × Life Path 4, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Robert in the U.S.?
#92
US rank in 2025
~4,869,849
Americans share it since 1880
1947
its peak year
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Robert’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
4 · 2 · 5 · 8
Lucky colours
Green & Teal
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
→ East
Season
spring
Stones
Opal, Red Coral, Green Aventurine
Flower constellation
🧡 Marigold · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🌿 Fern
Amber · Crimson · Forest
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Robert, according to the stars
Core essence
Robert does not do surface. The core of Robert is intensity, the kind that wants the real story and can tell when it is not getting it. They love completely or not at all, keep their own counsel, and have a private loyalty that runs deeper than anyone outside it will ever know. Trust from Robert is earned slowly and never given lightly.
The vibe
Underneath, Robert is an optimist who needs the door left open. The Moon in Sagittarius feels best in motion, out in the world, laughing at the thing that went wrong. What Robert needs to feel safe is freedom and the truth, in that order. Try to contain them and they vanish; trust them and they come back every time.
How Robert wants to be loved
Robert wants to be loved attentively. Venus in Virgo shows love through service, the fixed thing, the remembered appointment, and wants to be loved the same way: notice what they did. Big words matter less than the follow-through. Be reliable with Robert and they will quietly make your whole life run better.
How Robert creates
How Robert makes things happen: they make things grow. A Yin Earth day master is the garden soil, generous, nourishing, the reason other people's ideas take root. Robert creates by caring for the thing until it works, and they are often the quiet reason a whole group is thriving. The work is keeping some of that richness for themselves.
Instinct
Instinct: Robert is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Wood year adds growth: ideals, ambition, a need to be getting somewhere.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 4 is the builder. Robert is here to make things that last, to put structure under other people's dreams, to be trusted with the real work. Loyal, practical, honest, and learning that the plan can bend without breaking.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Robert does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Robert's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
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You may run on a few close bonds rather than a crowd. Depth is your default.
You likely think things through before you act. Haste rarely feels safe.
You may wear your feelings openly. What you feel tends to show.
You may need space before addressing conflict. Cooling off comes first.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You likely warm up at a pace that depends on the person and moment.
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Robert Caro in 15 seconds
Scorpio Sun
Scorpio SunReads the room. Says nothing.
Robert Caro's Sun was in Scorpio for the whole of October 30, 1935, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Scorpio readings associate the sign with intensity, depth and strong loyalties: few bonds, held completely. Astrologers describe it as the fixed water sign, traditionally ruled by Mars and in modern practice by Pluto, and read it for privacy and resolve. The corresponding tension is the tendency to guard trust closely and to remember what was done with it.
Wood Pig
Wood PigWarm, sincere, easy company.
Robert Caro was born on October 30, 1935, which falls in a Wood Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 4
Life Path 4Slow, solid, lasting.
Robert Caro's birth date, October 30, 1935, reduces to Life Path 4 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 4 readings associate the number with structure, patience and building: turning ideas into plans and plans into something that outlasts the mood that started it. Numerologists describe it as the path of the builder. The corresponding tension is rigidity, with the caution that the structure was meant to serve the life and not the reverse.
What stands out in Robert’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Robert Caro's date-only chart is Saturn sextile Uranus, with an orb of under 1°.
- This chart has an even Earth/Water emphasis, with four planets in each.
- Robert Caro combines an Earth Day Master in BaZi with a fixed Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Steadfast Architect.
Robert’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Robert Caro, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 7° to 20° Sagittarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableSaturnsextileUranus0.2° orb
Robert’s discipline opens doors for their need for freedom.
stableJupitertrinePluto0.4° to 0.7° orb
Robert’s growth flows straight into their depths.
stableMarstrineUranus1.6° to 2.3° orb
Robert’s drive flows straight into their need for freedom. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableMarssextileSaturn1.7° to 2.5° orb
Robert’s drive opens doors for their discipline.
stableSuntrineSaturn2.3° to 3.3° orb
Robert’s core identity flows straight into their discipline. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunoppositionUranus2.4° to 3.5° orb
Robert’s core identity pulls against their need for freedom from across the wheel.
stableVenusconjunctionNeptune4.8° to 5.6° orb
Robert’s affections and imagination act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableJupitersquareSaturn5.5° to 5.7° orb
Robert’s growth grinds against their discipline. The friction is lifelong. Worked with, it builds real strength.
stableUranussquarePluto6.0° orb
Robert’s need for freedom grinds against their depths. The angle that irritates, and the one that teaches.
possibleMoonsextileMercuryorb from 0.1° to 10.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareNeptuneorb from 0.1° to 8.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsquareVenusorb from 1.2° to 13.1° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire1 of 10
- Earth4 of 10
- Air1 of 10
- Water4 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal3 of 10
- Fixed3 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign.
Robert’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ Chiron ℞Gemini 15°32′ (moves 0.04° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Gemini is read as a tender spot around being heard or believed. The tradition has Robert turning that into a careful, exact way with words.
⚳ CeresLibra 15°14′ (moves 0.45° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Libra is read as nurture through fairness and company. Robert is read as someone who feeds others by keeping the peace and the balance.
♡ ErosAquarius 18°34′ (moves 0.27° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Aquarius is read as desire for the unusual and the friend-first bond. Robert is read as needing a shared idea before a shared bed.
⚕ Hygiea ℞Taurus 5°32′ (moves 0.20° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Taurus is read as health through routine, food and rest. Robert is read as someone whose wellbeing tracks their habits closely.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 22°11′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Robert exacting with themselves first.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Eros trine Mercury 0.2°
- Chiron square Neptune 0.5°
- Hygiea opposition Sun 0.8°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Venus 0.9°
- Hygiea sextile Saturn 2.0°
- Hygiea conjunction Uranus 2.1°
- Chiron trine Mercury 2.8°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Robert’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♇ Pluto7 pts
rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects
2. ♄ Saturn5 pts
disposes Mars; 4 major aspects
3. ♅ Uranus4 pts
4 major aspects
A Pluto-led chart is read as intensity and transformation leading: Robert is read as someone who does not do things by half and rebuilds after every ending.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Robert’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
No stellium, grand trine, T-square, grand cross, yod or kite closes among the planets that can be placed. That is the common case, not a gap.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Sun semi-square Venus 0.1°
- Jupiter quintile Neptune 0.1°
- Mercury sesquiquadrate Saturn 0.2°
- Saturn biquintile Pluto 0.2°
- Mercury quintile Mars 1.1°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Robert Caro, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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From the journal: Fixed, cardinal, mutable: the modality cheat sheet · Why there are 12 signs and not 13
Robert’s cards
Every card is computed from October 30, 1935, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yin Earth.
Year
乙
yin Wood
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
丙
yang Fire
戌
Dog
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
己
yin Earth
卯
Rabbit
Wood
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Robert Caro, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Robert’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q373423, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Robert Caro at Wikipedia, robertcaro.org, IMDb, Instagram and X.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Robert Caro.
Quick answers about Robert Caro’s chart
- How old is Robert Caro?
- Robert Caro is 90 years old, born October 30, 1935 in New York City, United States.
- What zodiac sign is Robert Caro?
- Robert Caro is a Scorpio: born October 30, 1935, which puts the Sun in Scorpio for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Wood Pig.
- What is Robert Caro's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Wood element, from the Chinese lunar year of the October 30, 1935 birth.
- What time was Robert Caro born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Robert Caro's Life Path number?
- Life Path 4, calculated in numerology from the October 30, 1935 birth date.
- What is Robert Caro's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Gemini at 15°. Position from JPL Horizons for the October 30, 1935 birth date.
- Where is Robert Caro's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 22°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Robert Caro's dominant planet?
- Pluto, on AsterNym's dominance score (7 points: rules the Sun sign, Scorpio; disposes Sun, Jupiter; 2 major aspects). Saturn is second and Uranus third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
